Posts Tagged ‘spam’

Clean Up Comment Spam with the Akismet Plug in for WordPress

This plug in comes standard with WordPress. It just needs to be activated. Then you need an API key to make it work.
Head over to http://akismet.com/wordpress/ to get yours.
You can pay for the plug in to support the site, or get it free if you have no money. I recommend making a contribution, if you can.
The plug in does a great job of filtering out spam comments.

It’s not to hard to spot spam comments on your blog or website. Most of the time they sound very flattering. Something like, “Nice post”, or “I love reading your site”. They are very general comments and could apply to any site. Real comments tend to be centered around the actual topic of your site.

Often times bots will crawl the web posting comments on blogs. The idea is to get a link back or bring attention to a site that is trying to sell something.